Strange Interlude Chapter Summary & Analysis - Part 1, Act 5 Summary

Part 1, Act 5 Summary

This act takes place in a small house on the east coast a few months later. Nina, visibly pregnant, sits alone. Her thoughts reveal that she's just felt her baby move, that Darrell's its father, that she believes the baby is truly a love child because she loves Darrell so much, and that he's resisted loving her but she's manipulated him until she's sure he does. Her thoughts become poetic as she describes herself as "living a dream within the great dream of the tide" and imagines God as a mother. She closes her eyes and rests.

Evans enters, and as he looks at her, his thoughts reveal how he believes that she'd have been happier if she had married Gordon and how he's contemplating either suicide or divorce. He decides to tell her what he's feeling, but when Nina looks at him, he says instead that it's almost time...
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